Zakk Ridley, pilot, smuggler, rogue, rapscallion…he’d like to think he’s a nice guy. Zakk dreams of an easy life roaming the galaxy and making a fast buck or two, but those dreams are thrown into disarray when he and his robotic first mate, Dan, get involved in a simple delivery that goes awry. Before they know it they’re caught up in an intergalactic conspiracy to keep the galaxy in fear of a constant war on terror.

Will they heed Kyouri Denan’s pleas for help in exposing this gross perversion of democracy? Of course they will…eventually… The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley is a rip roaring adventure across the galaxy, stopping off at a few of it’s seedier dives on the way…

Written by Ian Sharman and Peter Rogers and beautifully painted by willing art slave, Ewan McLaughlin, click HERE to download The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley right now for a whopping 60% off! And that’s 60% off the digital price, not the print price…so you can get the whole gosh darn book for just $1.60/£1.22!

However, so are space pirates, dragons, Vikings, extra-humans, vampires, axe murdering cheerleaders, werewolves, Boadicca, more vampires, a super hero, outlaws, a gelatinous cube, a doom laden message from the future and a whole cast of weird and wonderful characters.

It’s going to be quite a party.

The Return Of The Son Of Eleventh Hour features eighteen stories from the past, present and, quite possibly, the future of Orang Utan Comics. It all kicks off with a brand new prologue to The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley and ends with a rarely seen Hero: 9 to 5 short. It’s been ten years and OUC are still making comics for a strange new world.

Available to pre-order now on Amazon worldwide, The Return Of The Son Of Eleventh Hour is the anthology that quite literally has something for everyone!

We’re at Booth B11, but we know from previous years that a booth smack bang in the middle of the show floor is surprisingly hard to find, so here’s a plan of the venue on which the location of our booth has been subtly highlighted.

You’ll also be able to find Ian Sharman and Holly Rose at the Ray Gunn & Starburst panel at 4pm in Panel Room 3 on Saturday 20th February.

Ray Gunn & Starburst: An Adventure Through Kickstarter

Saturday 20th March, 4-5pm, Panel Room 3, London Super Comic Con

Nic Papaconstantinou (of the We Have Issues podcast) interviews the cast and crew of sci-fi/comedy audio series The Adventures of Ray Gunn & Starburst. Writer/director Holly Rose will be answering questions alongside the show’s stars, Dominic Westerland, Georgia Humphrey, Ian Sharman and Alyson Leeds. Find out how they successfully Kickstarted the series which recently received a glowing 9/10 review from Starburst magazine.

You can find Orang Utan Comics at tables 176 & 193 in New Dock Hall at Thought Bubble on the 14th & 15th of November. Yes, we have a whole lovely corner to call our home for the weekend!

You can find out who else is in New Dock Hall here. The floorplan for the Royal Armouries is here and the Thought Bubble Marquee is here.

Come along and say hello! We’ll have new editions of Hero: 9 to 5 and Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus on sale and the new paperback editions of Alpha Gods: Betrayal and The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley too.

We hope you can all join us at the show on March 15th and 16th 2014 as we release two eagerly anticipated new books – Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus and The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley!

To celebrate these spectacular new releases we have a range of exciting special offers for you at the Orang Utan Comics booth (B11).

Buy Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus or The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley and get a free Eagle Award nominated anthology!

Buy any two graphic novels and get a free comic (Shrapnel: Case Files #1 or The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley #1 Convention Exclusive Edition)!

The Alpha Gods: Emergence Special Edition hardback will be available at the special LSCC price of just £10 (regular price £12.99). Further special discounts across our range of graphic novels, see the list below for details.

Special convention offer Five Book Deal: Alpha Gods: Emergence HC, The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley LSCC Exclusive HC, Hero: 9 to 5, Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus and the Hypergirl Ltd Ed HC for just £60! (Regular price for all five is £68.92).

Free set of cosplay art cards with ANY purchase!

And, yes, these offers stack! So if you buy the Five Book Deal you will also receive the Eagle Award nominated anthology, a free comic and a set of art cards, a total value of £83.87 for just £60!

All offers are while stocks last, visit Orang Utan Comics at booth B11 early to avoid disappointment!

In Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus the creative team of Ian Sharman, David Gray and Yel Zamor return us to a world where the rich can afford the best in super hero protection, but the poor have to get by with the heroic equivalent of third party, fire and theft. The “Lone Knight” returns from the pages of Hero: 9 to 5, but how will The Loner and the finest men and women that publicly funded super hero protection can supply cope when a mysterious figure leaves a trail of unconnected corpses in his wake? How will a young hero deal with the loss of his mentor? And, more importantly, how will Thunder Woman get her groceries when she runs into Lash Lady at the store? In a world where being a super hero is just another job, what happens when there’s nobody left alive to pay the bill? Quietus – some men just want to watch the world die.

Zakk Ridley is just your average smuggler and rogue until he and his robotic partner, Dan, get caught up in an intergalactic conspiracy. Zakk dreams of an easy life roaming the galaxy and making a fast buck or two, but as they say, in space no one can hear you dream… The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley is written by Orang Utan Comics’ founders Ian Sharman (Alpha Gods/Hero: 9 to 5) and Pete Rogers (The Interactives) with stunning fully painted art by Ewan McLaughlin.

“Those who’ve been following the fortunes of Orang Utan Comics will know that these two books have been a long time coming,” said Hero: 9 to 5 and Zakk Ridley writer, Ian Sharman. “2013 was something of a roller coaster year for me and it feels exceptionally satisfying to be starting 2014 with the launch of two books I’ve been looking forward to getting into people’s hands for years.” Orang Utan Comics have plans for more releases throughout the year, including a hardback collection of Alpha Gods: Betrayal, a series that should also be seeing its animated debut later in the year, and the first print collection of their ongoing web comic series, Spacescape.

The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley and Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus are both now available to pre-order from the Orang Utan Comics online store. Both books will be released at London Super Comic Con on 15th-16th March 2014 at the Excel Centre in London, and there are options to pre-order to pick up at the convention and to pre-order for mail order delivery after the show. All mail ordered books will be shipped signed by writer Ian Sharman, who will be on hand to personally sign books at LSCC. Both books are offered at special LSCC discount prices. The regular price for The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk Ridley is £17.99 but you can get this 100 page, full colour hardback for just £15. The regular price for Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus is £11.99 but you can get this 96 page, full colour softcover for just £10.

We will have a limited number of copies for sale over the weekend at Thought Bubble at the Orang Utan Comics table (table 56 in New Dock Hall), if you have not pre-ordered then they’ll be sold on a strictly first come, first served basis. With a strictly limited print run of just fifty copies, once they’re gone, they’re gone!

See you all at the convention, have a great weekend!

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Orang Utan Comics is a creative collective run by Markosia’s Editor In Chief, Ian Sharman. We function largely as an imprint of Markosia and exist to promote the various projects that members of the collective, both past and present, are involved in.